Richard Bullen Newton
Portrait of Richard Bullen Newton (1920)
Richard Bullen Newton, ISO, (23 February 1854 - 23 January 1926) was a British paleontologist who was between 1910 and 1912 president of the Malacological Society of London and the Conchological Society of Great Britain & Ireland.[1]
Newton is buried at City of Westminster Cemetery, Hanwell.[2]
The World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) lists 24 marine genera and species named by him.[3]
Among his many publications:
- Newton, R Bullen, On the necessity for the abandonment of the generic name Cyclostoma, with suggestions regarding others involved in this genus; Annals And Magazine of Natural History 7 (6), 1891
- Newton R. B. (1891). Systematic list of the F. E. Edwards collection of British Oligocene and Eocene mollusca in the British Museum (Natural History), with references to the type-specimens from similar horizons contained in other collections belonging to the Geological Department of the Museum. London, British Museum, XXVIII + 365 pp
- Newton, R Bullen - Holland, Richard, On some Tertiary Foraminifera from Borneo collected by Professor Molengraaff and the late Mr. A. H. Everett, and their comparison with similar forms from Sumatra; Annals And Magazine of Natural History 3 (7), 1899
- Newton, R Bullen, Eocene Shells from Nigeria; Annals And Magazine of Natural History 15 (7), 1905
- Newton, R Bullen - Crick, G C: On some Jurassic Mollusca from Arabia, Annals And Magazine of Natural History 2 (8), 1908
- Newton, R Bullen, On some freshwater fossils from Central South Africa; Annals And Magazine of Natural History 5 (9), 1920
- Newton, R Bullen, On a marine Jurassic fauna from Central Arabia; Annals And Magazine of Natural History 7 (9), 1921
References[]
- ^ Richard Bullen Newton I.S.O., F.G.S. British Geological Survey. Retrieved 26 October 2015.
- ^ Hanwell Cemetery. City of Westminster. Retrieved 26 October 2015.
- ^ Taxa named by Richard Bullen Newton
- B. B. Woodward, 1926. Richard Bullen Newton, I.S.O., F.G.S., etc., 1854-1925 [sic.]. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London 17(2-3): 69-70
- B. B. Woodward, 1926. Richard Bullen Newton, I.S.O. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 82(3): xlix-l.
- J. R. le B. Tomlin, 1926. Obituary notice: R. B. Newton. Journal of Conchology 18(1): 11-12
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